Guilty by Reason of Insanity: A Psychiatrist Explores the Minds of Killers - Hardcover

Lewis, Dorothy Otnow; Wood, Ira

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ISBN 10: 0449002772 ISBN 13: 9780449002773

Verlag: Fawcett Books, 1998

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Book by Dorothy Otnow Lewis

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A nationally known psychiatrist at Bellevue Hospital in New York City recounts her experiences probing the minds of the murderously insane, including encounters with teenage murderers, schizophrenics, and famous killers such as Ted Bundy and Mark David Chapman. Tour.

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felt the urge to kill. Most people don't kill. Some people do. Dorothy Otnow Lewis, a psychiatrist and an internationally recognized expert on violence, has spent the last quarter century studying the differences between those who do and those who don't. Among the murderers she has examined are the notorious killers Ted Bundy, Arthur Shawcross, and Mark David Chapman, the man who shot John Lennon. Now, she shares her groundbreaking discoveries--and the chilling encounters that led to them.

Guilty by Reason of Insanity is the gripping, brilliantly written true story of Dr. Lewis's search to understand those who kill. The unforgettable cases revealed here clearly illustrate how the disparate elements of brain damage, paranoia, and family brutality combine to create a killer.

It starts at a juvenile court in New Haven. A thirteen-year-old girl--out of the blue, in broad daylight--has stabbed her best friend to death before an audience of gaping classmates. Dr. Lewis convinces h

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• Verlag: Fawcett Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0449002772
• ISBN 13: 9780449002773
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 301